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The word's deepest geothermal well

The word's deepest geothermal well

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Iceland has just started to drill the world's deepest geothermal well into the heart of a volcano at the depth of around 5 kilometres. This is all in the pursuit of more renewable geothermal energy, which contributes to around 26% of Iceland's energy production. New Zealand scientists have been involved in the research and development of the project. 95bFM reporter Dylan Kelly speaks to Greg Bignall from GNS Science about the likelihood of these scientists bringing their findings back to New Zealand and using them to extract further geothermal energy here.